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Blood Sucking Public Servants
I wonder with a title like that, what will this drivel allude to?
Who knows whether the culprit in this story supported the Public Servants Association's strikes in 2006 that led to the 60, 70, 80 % pay rise for Public Servants. It may be that this is really an endemic problem with just the blood sucking section at the Vaiola Hospital.
In the last three years, we have had cause to visit the Vaiola Hospital for them to take four samples of blood. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't know of too many people out there who find it the least enjoyable to trip over to the Hospital to get blood taken out of them. We now have a 100% success record with the Blood Sucking section at the Hospital, where they have either lost the samples or otherwise found a reason to not conjure the report for which the blood was taken.
I think some of the sample was taken before the pay rise, and the last very recent is well after the promised improvements in Public Servant attitude and ethics. Since we all find it an urgent issue (sometimes relating to serious medical conditions) when blood is taken that the lab reports be efficiently and expediently returned to the doctors, it really is inexcusable for the blood team to be losing people's samples.
What is more inexcusable is to just sit on the 'lost thing' until a doctor or patient makes an enquiry requesting updates on the lab report status.
In our most recent fiasco with the Hospital Blood Unit, they are reporting to the doctor that 'Ofa didn't take a sample. Gee, that was pretty dumb of 'Ofa to go to the hospital, pay for the blood sample and an X-Ray. Turn up for the X-ray, but not for taking your blood.
Making mistakes is part of life, incompetence is something we try to avoid, being incompetent and then also trying to hide it is just plain inexcusable.
AND which government system will resolve this incompetence? Neither democratic nor monarchic government have exclusive rights to hypocrisy nor mediocrity, they seem to be in abundant measures these days.
So, Taimi 'o Tonga reports last week that the pharmacy department employs incompetents, and last night we find out further incompetence in the blood unit.
When Ma'ake heard our story on the missing blood sample his response was: Ko Tonga 'eni.
Ko e founga foki 'oku tau ngaue'aki 'i Tonga ni ke 'iai pe hato maheni, ka e tautau tefito ki Falemahaki. Ko e 'iai pe hato maheni pea faingofua ange 'a e fakalelei'i 'o 'u me'a ni. Ko e 'ikai pe ...
Ka te feinga kita ke fai he "founga totonu" mahalo ko ha'o mate palapala ia 'a'au.
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